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Subject: Re: 1 Dual Core CPU + Hyper-Threading = 4 CPU in Windows

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 04:02:05 08/25/05

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On August 25, 2005 at 03:23:26, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>please don´t think that the speedup is 3.52 only becase the nps are getting up
>by a factor of 3.52. In parallel search many "unnecessary" nodes are searched.
>The amount of unnecessary nodes is dependant of the quality of the parallel
>algorithm.
>
>The speedup can only be calculated by looking at the time a program takes to
>reach a certain search depth in different position. To test only one position
>will not tell you anything.
>
>Greetings Volker

Hi Volker

Yes I know that.

I believe I asked for speedup numbers in another post

Would you have any ideas ?

Thanks
Tom




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